Capitalism's Fatal Flaw, and the Way Forward: Capitalism’s FATAL FLAW Defined/Described in a Single Sentence [164 words].

Saturday, February 14, 2026

Capitalism’s FATAL FLAW Defined/Described in a Single Sentence [164 words].

Capitalism’s

FATAL FLAW

Defined/Described

in a

Single Sentence

[164 words].

Dear Reader,

The fatal flaw of the Capitalist System, as Karl Marx predicted*, and sought to warn global humanity about, is that, at its high-productivity, fixed-capital-intensive stage, it attacks industrial/banking capitals’ profitability, via the accelerated progress in industrial machinery technology that the capitalist profit motive itself incentivizes, and, via accelerated technological obsolescence depreciation and write-off of legacy industrial fixed capital value, and its backing bank-loan value, forced by also-growing world market competition, drives its ruling class to attack the, technological, growth of the “social forces of production” – i.e., of the ‘societal self-reproductive self-force’ of the human species – which is the fount of all progress for humanity, and that ruling faction uses its colossal power to act, in every conceivable way, to, at first, reduce that societal self-reproduction rate, and, later, to reverse that self-reproduction/[self-]productivity growth rate, eventually including pogroms to collapse the very core of that ‘societal self-reproductive self-force’, the human population itself, thereby lowering the ‘meta-Darwinian fitness’ of the human species to the extinction threshold. [164 words]

*[See, for example, Marx’s Preface to his A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy, especially –

“In the social production which humans¹ carry on they enter into definite relations that are indispensable and independent of their will; these relations of production correspond to a definite stage of development of their material powers of production. …”

“At a certain stage of their development the material forces of production come into conflict with the existing relations of production… . From forms of development of the forces of production these relations turn into their fetters. Then comes the period of social revolution… In considering such transformations the distinction should always be made between the material transformation of the economic conditions of [M.D.: social re-]production, which can be determined with the precision of natural science, and the legal, political, religious, aesthetic or philosophic – in short, ideological – forms in which humans¹ become conscious of this conflict and fight it out.”

See also Capital. A Critique of Political Economy, Book III, Part III, The Law of the Tendency of the Rate of Profit to Fall, wherein Marx applies the ‘historically generic’ “law” of human social evolution/revolution [/‘meta-evolution’], that he discovered, as stated above, to the “historically specific” case of the capitalist system, and to the capitalist epoch of human [“pre-”]history.

¹[In nineteenth century usage, “men” generally meant human beings in general. Therefore, to preserve the meaning Marx intended, per contemporary usage, we have replaced “men” with “humans”. To see that Marx was no sexist, despite ruling class servants’ claims to the contrary, simply consult Marx’s 1844 manuscripts, Third Manuscript: “The immediate, natural and necessary relation of human being to human being is also the relation of man to woman. … . From this relationship man’s whole level of development can be assessed.”].

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